After engagements at the Texas Ballet Theater and the ballet of the Hannover State Opera, Michael Foster’s repertoire includes many lead roles in works by Jörg Mannes (among them “Madame Bovary”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Ein Stück Zeit”) and also choreographies by Ben Stevenson, Mauro Bigonzetti (“La Piaf”) and Hans van Manen (“Five Tangos”). Trained at the Tulsa School of Ballet, the Tulsa Ballet Center for Dance Education und Houston ballet II under Claudio Muños, the American dancer has also featured as a choreographer in recent years. For “New Steps”, the evening for young choreographers of the ballet of the Hannover State Opera, Michael Foster contributed in 2010 the Pas de deux “Engel”, in 2011 “This May Be Our Last Time …” and in 2012 “Storm Birth”. Michael Foster has moved to Martin Schläpfer’s Ballett am Rhein as from the 2013/14 season, where he could add to his repertoire works by Martin Schläpfer, Nils Christe, Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins and Marco Goecke, among others. With his choreography “Rapture” he presented himself as a choreographer with the Ballett am Rhein for the first time in 2016, 2017 follows the world premiere “East Coasting”.